Two persons including a man and a child died on spot when roof of an illegally operative coal mine at patch4 of Eastern Jharia area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) under Bhowra police out post area collapsed on Friday morning with a bang.
Several others are suspected to be trapped in the collapsed portion of the roof.
Two persons including Jitendar Yadav (12) resident of 16 no Basti and Madan also known as Pawan Prasad (27) resident of 6 no Baati have died. Three injured persons have been identified as Aman Kumar, his mother Alpana Devi and uncle Ajay Yadav.
A local said three people died and two were injured and have been shifted to local hospital for treatment.
Though there was no official confirmation of deaths and injured persons by police though inspector of Jorapokhar PS Binod Oroan reached on spot after the incident.
Oroan said , police are assessing the situation and full details of the incident would be given later on.
The incident took place next to the officially operative mines of the BCCL where official mining was going on by an outsourced company of BCCL.
Meanwhile, locals have started a dharna outside the office of the GM of Bhowra area with the body of Jitendar Yadav demanding compensation of Rs five lakhs. The dharna was continuing till the filing of the news.